Nathan Radke

Now, weirdly, this is unusual for a coroner's report.

The official coroner report includes the fact that the doll was not in the room with him when he died.

Yeah, unfortunately, it's almost like a bit of the Barbra Streisand effect there.

Because by putting that into the report, people who have the tendency to not believe authority anyway are going to say, oh, wait, the authority says this doesn't have to do with the haunted doll.

That means that 100% does have to do with the haunted doll.

Well, I mean, this is a fascinating story.

This is a perfect storm.

This is an absolute perfect storm of Internet innuendo and also kind of like old fashioned Barnum and Bailey style hucksterism.

And part of the tragedy is that, of course, this doll had already been associated as part of the story they would tell about this doll in order to gain more attention.

They had already associated with death.

Part of the story was that someone had come to the museum and, like, ignored the sign and touched the doll and had then been killed in a motorcycle crash.

And so part of selling this doll on this tour is that the doll is associated with death.

And then tragically, when somebody associated with the doll actually does die, it kind of comes back to bite them.

Because the people want to say, no, no, no, honor this guy for the life he led.

This doesn't have anything to do with this nonsense doll thing, despite the fact that that's what we've been pushing this whole time.

Yeah, which tragically is something that we see over and over and over again.

Oh yeah, and if I took over for that job, I would 100% demand danger pay for exactly that reason.

Yeah, because I've been doing some research in it, and this is a really wild scene.

Well, thanks for having me on.

Well, I mean, if you go to any online auction site, you're going to find a bunch of weird things for sale.